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Probably doing something similar here. This place average post went from “look at this new javascript framework” to “I just became 100x more productive with AI
by iammrpayments 2mo ago
Probably doing something similar here.
This place average post went from “look at this new javascript framework” to “I just became 100x more productive with AI” in the last 3 years
- tokioyoyo 2mo agoIt would be cool to see HN internal stats over the last 5 years. New users, posts from different accounts and etc.
- woozyolliew 2mo agoYeah. Could be astroturfing. Could just be a surge in enthusiasm after 10 years when all we had to be excited about was a new Javascript framework. Your analysis by account age might be telling
- bossyTeacher 2mo ago> Could just be a surge in enthusiasm after 10 years when all we had to be excited about was a new Javascript framework. No. I distinctly remember HN being fairly skeptical of LLMs the way they were sold back in 2023. Then, the astroturfing began happening gradually. First in the comments and then in the posts.
- tokioyoyo 2mo agoTo be very fair, I was also very skeptical about LLMs in 2023. Not so much anymore. Edit: ok, i guess this account is from 2024, but been around a while. I guess can’t defend myself like this :)
- loeg 2mo agoI share the same sentiment, and my account is at least ten years old.
- asdfsa32 2mo agoSuites are still in trend, but Suites are not "in". That is the point here. AI is being marketed beyond what it is honestly capable.
- tokioyoyo 2mo agoOur jobs are basically sifting through PR garbage and making use of what it’s actually capable of. Obviously there’s a lot of fluff, but there is real use cases for myself as well.
- doix 2mo agoYeah, I was very skeptical and now I've drank the kool-aid. Got multiple parallel cloud agents with independent loops making PRs and me reviewing them. AI is also reviewing PRs and sometimes even catches useful things. LLMs in 2023, from what I remember, were slightly better auto complete. It's pretty different now.
- leptons 2mo agoI'm using AI in many ways but I'm not ignoring that it has some real costs. The code AI writes is too voluminous to fully review. I'm quite disconnected from it, and probably won't be able to maintain it myself. The more we use AI to code, the more our real skills atrophy (already feeling that). And when AI pricing finally catches up with the astronomical spending going into it, people are going to have a rude awakening. Nothing good is coming from any of this, unless you're able to cash in before the economy collapses when this bubble finally bursts.
- simianwords 2mo agoAI pricing finally catching up? What do you mean? Every few months prices are going down by 5x. Your price correction will not happen and it’s time to accept it.
- gerhardi 2mo agoI'm interested in which model prices have went down 5x on multiple occasions? Are you talking about subscription or API/Token pricing?
- tokioyoyo 2mo agoIf you think of what you could do for $200 last year vs today, I could argue the prices went down.
- gerhardi 2mo agoYes I agree with this - models today are better than they were a year ago. But not sure if I can "do for $1 what used to cost $25" across the board (meaning two times occurred 5x price reduction). But it's maybe not that simple to compare as there are some simple things also that just were not feasibly possible at all some time ago.
- Barbing 2mo agoCheck Ars. Commenters hated it. Commenters are still 15-20 y/o accounts, but less blind hate. Obviously, in my opinion, based on reporting of truthfulness someone like Sam Altman would not be entirely opposed to astroturfing here. But people should probably appreciate at the least running free local software that has a few tricks up its sleeve.
- simianwords 2mo agoYou know how this reads right? Most people updated beliefs. While you couldn’t do it, so you think people are conspiring against you behind your back.
- lovich 2mo ago> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151741 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151741 > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151732 > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151719 Multiple comments made by this account in a timeframe I at least would personally have a hard time reading the comment I’m responding to and then and replying to this quickly, and from an account made in 2025. Kind of making the point for the people you disagree with, assuming you are an actual human and not a bot tasked with pushing a narrative.
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- defrost 2mo agoLiterally both can be true. Had a recent commenter insistent on calling out another HN user as a tool of the Chinese state boosting propaganda points. Either of them may well have been a paid commentator, but both also could hold a sincere belief in the points they were making.
- simianwords 2mo agoYou could also be a paid by Chinese propaganda. Or you could be sincere.
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- OccamsMirror 2mo agoI want to push back on this. Hacker News was way more interesting before 75% of the submissions were about AI.
- weird-eye-issue 2mo agoYeah but that's just how things have gone. My enthusiasm about a new JavaScript framework is practically zero these days compared to several years ago, and I do genuinely use AI for all of my coding especially since I developed a health issue that prevents me from typing
- claaams 2mo agoI’ve noticed this too. I’ve seen a ton ai defenders and hype people here. It’s embarrassing.
- bob1029 2mo agoIt was embarrassing a year+ ago when much of this technology barely worked at all. If you did not perceive a step change in model capabilities in late 2025, it's possible you are working on problems that are just too hard or not well aligned (e.g., arts and crafts). If you are working on software and need to move the occasional mountain, it's really hard to argue with the capabilities of contemporary models and harnesses. This space is evolving rapidly. Faster in some areas than others, but you should still keep an open mind and adapt to the new realities as they emerge. Wishing for a thing to fail can blind you to more opportunities than you would probably be willing to reject if they were presented directly.
- asdfsa32 2mo agoYeah, this is nonsense. No one is arguing that AI is useless, but that there is a coordinated marketing campaign hyping it up.
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- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2mo ago"AI is useless" is a strawman^1 used by HN commenters The commenters refer to the slightest skepticism or criticisms of "AI" hype as an argument that "AI is useless" 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181716/http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/skelton/Teaching/General%20Readings/Logical%20Falllacies.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181716/http://web.uvic.c...
- raincole 2mo agoOr, you know, many people genuinely find it exciting to see AI pumping their long overdue side-projects, just like many people once found bikeshedding their frontend frameworks exciting?
- broodbucket 2mo agoI'm not gonna say where we're at now is better, but as someone who has never had any interest in webdev, the perpetual JavaScript frameworks baffled me. How could they still be interesting and how was there not one that was good enough yet?
- OtomotO 2mo agoWhat's missing is a balanced view. People are easily divided and suddenly in a binary position. You're either totally pro AI and can't stop talking about it all the time, it's like your new god. Or you're a hater. And old-school person, who deceived themselves and got a good portion of their self-worth from typing strange invocations in an even stranger electronic device. Both are bullshit, but if you're not in either camp you get flack from both. My (!) reality is that it's useful technology, but far from the claims that were made by the people trying to sell (!) it. I've seen quite some improvements over the years, but I haven't seen the claims materialized in any release in the last 18+ months. Yes, it's impressive, yes, it's probably here to stay in some form or another. But it's not Skynet, GLaDOS or even HAL ...
- antonvs 2mo agoI don’t suppose that could have anything to do with the fact that AI has become a huge part of day to day business in the tech industry and elsewhere? Totally mystifying that anyone would say anything about that!
- dzhiurgis 2mo agoNeither was true. It is most skeptical community ever, including AI. To the point I'm convinced astroturfing is done by malicious parties.
- kmfrk 2mo agoI understand why forums don't expose user IDs for scraping, but man it would be nice to just be able to tag users online with accounts created after the introduction of ChatGPT.